Alex the alligator, seen after he was found 11 days after going missing at a Kansas City, Mo., middle school petting event. Students at Kansas City, Mo.’s Lakeview Middle School were treated to an outdoor petting zoo last month to celebrate the end of the school year. There were baby llamas, alpacas, goats, rabbits and a not-so-cuddly young alligator named Alex.
“A quick search was done around the area, but Alex had disappeared,” he said. “We do thousands of these petting zoos, and we’d never had anything like this happen before.”“They looked all around the middle school and the grounds, which were densely populated with brush and trees,” Fugate said. “The fire department even brought a drone out to look for any movement.”
Families living near the school put up signs advising people to watch for the gator, and everyone in the area searched their backyards, she said. But with no sightings or leads, animal service workers decided to suspend their search after five days, on May 28.“It absolutely breaks my heart that its mouth was taped shut,” one woman commented on KC Pet Project’s Facebook post. “Even if the gator is found alive, I can't imagine the pain of ripping the tape off.
“We go to a lot of schools, and our enclosures are specifically built so the animals cannot get out,” Smith said. “So I believe someone had to have taken that animal out.” “Somebody put the alligator in a box and took him to the office until animal control could come out,” Wachel said. “Everyone was thrilled he’d finally been found.”
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